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What? He was clearly guilty, based on my own presupposition and the scattering of things I heard about the case on the Internet. This can't be right. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: trial-by-jury doesn't work.

Time to show the world how a REAL country riots. Screw those kids in the streets of Cairo, the legitimacy of their plight only detracts from the circus. We will show the world blood and fire the likes of which only CNN and Fox News have only dreamed of. This is our country's 9/11.

The black community in Oregon said he would not riot after learning that Zimmerman had been acquitted. "I haven't really been keeping up with the news since David bought me a Kindle Paperwhite," he said.

"You have a little black boy who was killed," said Benjamin Crump, an attorney for Martin's parents. "It's going to be reported in history books ,and 50 years from now, our children will talk about Trayvon Martin's case like we talk about Emmett Till."

As a self-hating white person with a pigeon chest and kazoo voice, I was hoping that George Zimmerman would be found guilty of murder for daring to resist a black man who was doing nothing wrong except for pounding Zimmerman's head against a concrete sidewalk and bloodying his nose in an attempt to exact some measure of racial justice. I am outraged that it is now considered acceptable for lighter-skinned people to act in self-defence against darker-skinned people who are trying to kill them, and I am more outraged still that Zimmerman has been spared prison and the prolonged sexual torture and eventual murder that the verdict would have entailed. Obviously what has happened here proves that the USA is still a dystopian racist theocracy, and by way of protest I am going to obstinately remain in the basement of my house in my predominantly-white, safe, suburban neighbourhood until justice is done, while furiously hammering away at the keyboard.

StreetlightInTheGhetto: bigsteve3OOO: Albert: Obama, the DOJ, and the media attempted to railroad Zimmerman, This case was 100% political and anyone who thinks Zimmerman is guilty is probably an angry black person or you've been completely fooled and spun up by the lying media.

AMEN. This should have never been more than a local story where no one was charged.

A unarmed teen dead with only the survivor to definitely tell most of the tale - you think no one should have been charged??? That's what our f--king courts are FOR, to sort this sh-t out!

WRONG! That is what investigators are for. The original ones said no case here. then Obama forced them to a trial. It is a sick use of the bully pulpit.

From the other thread, because I have to respond:

If you honestly believe the only reason the trial took place is because "OBAMA FORCED THEM TO A TRIAL", you are a f--king idiot. Although to be fair I am slightly envious of you. Ignorance is bliss, and it must be nice to be so SURE of things, all the time. And to have an easy target that you can blame when anything disturbs you, so you know where to direct your anger you truly know is justified.

I would never want that for myself, but at the same time, I can see how comforting that must be to you.

The entire goal of this media circus and acquittal was to incite Manson's Helter Skelter. That's why the DHS bought all the bullets, obviously. It's really easy to connect the dots and see that this is just a classist control measure.

We can, unless one of us is a racist wannabe Dirty Harry that profiles kids going home from the convenience store as criminals and thugs deserving of a death sentence for the incredible offense of Walking While Black After Dark.

I swear to god if somebody starts knocking at my door for the obviously satirical post, which I am pointing out right now through this disclaimer, i will kill you. Which that last statement, should not be taken literally either, I meant that as a euphemism, for inviting you in for tea and crumpets, while we have a long discussion about our lord and savior.

thornhill:In the heat of the moment when an authority figure says, "we don't need you to do that," that's going to be interpreted as, "don't do it," not, "this person is only phrasing it this way because of liability reason."

Florida won't burn to the ground because, contrary to what conservatives would have you believe, neither blacks nor liberals are irrational, emotion-crazed barbarians who instantly react to things they dislike with violence. Remember: it was white conservatives who started a civil war in the US over not having a president that agreed with them; white conservatives that have been behind all but three of the notable political assassinations in US history; white conservatives who burn down and blow up women's health clinics and shoot to death the doctors and nurses who work at them; white conservatives who lynch non-white and non-christian men for interacting with white women or for the crime of insisting they have basic human dignity. And in this case, it was a white-identifying Latino, one who bought into all the paranoid horseshiat the conservative movement spews about race, youth, and crime, who shot a kid to death in the street at night out of fear, after confronting him out of prejudice for the offense of being black in his own damn neighborhood.

Remember that white and white-identifying US conservatives are dangerous. They are responsible for tens of thousands of deaths and injuries in the US every year. Remember that they are hysterical and unpredictable, and will deploy violence without reason. Make no sudden movements around them and, if you are a minority of any kind, interact with them as little as possible. If you are not a white male, you are not safe around them; if you must interact with them, please seek out a friendly white male to do it for you. In their bottomless, pants-shiatting fear of everyone who isn't Northern-European and be-penised, they will shoot you at the drop of a hat, and never be punished for it. Just ask Yoshihiro Hattori.

Actually, I think the lesson is: if you defend yourself against a football playing, physically fit, aggressive 17-year-old who happens to be black, the state of Florida will try to railroad your ass no matter how little evidence of murder or manslaughter there is.

Maybe the lesson is this: if the person you are pummeling is screaming for help like a little girl, you should probably stop or he might think the only choice hehas is to pull out his gun and shoot you.

How about if nobody has a gun then zimmerman would not have been following trayvon in the first place and would have waited for the police?

rdu_voyager:Weaver95: LegacyDL: Lesson learned: listen to authority and don't be the aggressor.

I think the lesson here is: don't be black.

Actually, I think the lesson is: if you defend yourself against a football playing, physically fit, aggressive 17-year-old who happens to be black, the state of Florida will try to railroad your ass no matter how little evidence of murder or manslaughter there is.

Maybe the lesson is this: if the person you are pummeling is screaming for help like a little girl, you should probably stop or he might think the only choice hehas is to pull out his gun and shoot you.

I wonder if Trayvon would have wanted these guys to half-heartedly block the pedestrian crossing for a few hours in his honor.

Trayvon Martin would have been leading the charge. Fact.

Fun Fact: Trayvon would have wanted a large protest. One that all his neighbors attended so he could burglarize their empty houses for drug money. That's what he did to to get suspended from school and sent to dads.

s2s2s2:Lionel Mandrake: therhinodep: If it makes some of you feel better, I just heard Zimmerman did not walk away from this totally unscathed. He has been demoted from neighborhood watch captain to neighborhood watch lieutenant.

Did they takes away his gun?

Is he going to have to stab his way to an acquittal now?

Gave him back his gun, kept his bullets.

The gun is garbage. Have you seen it? It's all bent up. The tube is bent up, the slide is unable to close because of it.. Probably because of the point blank shot. The gun will never be used again.

You know what 'they' did to Fresno Bob? after the first 2007 Lakers Victory? We were leaving a publicity screening of "The Hitcher" reboot & this Army of LAPD Riot Police came double-timing down Cahuenga from Hollywood Blvd & a buncha drunks sauntered out of Big Wang's...a cop ordered a guy & his girl back, maybe it was a psychological thing, so they did. Another drunk from Wang's sidled up to this kid & said "brother, you gonna let them pigs pull that in front of yo' woman? Hell No! " & he went on so to kid marches up to the LAPD Riot Police & said-actually, he didn't say anything because they stepped up to him in a millisecond & hurled him into the bushes face first, stuck those Glad-wrap flexcuffs on him & hurled him into a paddywagon while one half of the crowd whistled oh shiat", tthe other half chanted "Rodney King" & everybody filmed it on their iPhones. The LAPD ran back to Hollywood Blvd & disappeared while the drunk sidled up to the now alone girlfriend & promised to get her home

Lionel Mandrake:therhinodep: If it makes some of you feel better, I just heard Zimmerman did not walk away from this totally unscathed. He has been demoted from neighborhood watch captain to neighborhood watch lieutenant.

Your gun laws are officially to the point where even Texas is wondering what the hell you are doing. A woman fires a warning shot in self defence gets 20 years, while a prejudiced gunman hunts down an unarmed teenager is let off scott free.

As much money as you get from the NRA, I'm certain it pails in comparison to the money you get from tourism. Thanks to your ass-backwards attitude and your unwillingness to deal with it, people will no longer visit your state and your economy will suffer for it.

ThrobblefootSpectre:bluorangefyre: Is Northeast Florida being destroyed yet? I just got in from work, but heard the about the verdict just before I left. I mean, what other choice do they have but to riot?

I live 3 miles from the courthouse and 4 from where it happened. Just dropped off a drunk girl on Airport blvd in Sanford. All quiet here.

/btw, this is central fl

So can you stir something up? Lot of people on Fark are depending on it.

Dead for Tax Reasons:rattchett: FlyingJ: photo of Trayvon's Corpse-par for the course, anybody think that Gawker Adam Weinstein's writing seems kind've odd in a fetishy way?-it's like the media wanted their own verdict, damn the jury, & now the media wants a riot

Trayvon supports are getting their frustrations out at the local Denny's right now, last I heard there was a chair thrown through a window and police on the way. Wonder what happens when they find out they cannot vote Obama for a third term, take all KFC's and Fubu stores hostage?

Huck And Molly Ziegler:I have made French toast myself, which is quite an accomplishment considering I "don't cook."

Nonetheless, I prefer pancakes, but only if they're not gooey and fall-aparty.

I sure hope those jurors saw something I didn't see, because the guy who was just found not guilty was the guy with the gun, and as a rule of thumb, I never feel sorry for the guy with the gun. Remember, he's got the NRA on his side.

There's a joke about people with arm amputations having the right to bear arms in there somewhere, but its 1 am here. I have to go get my race riot on.

/Apparently the entire internet thinks all of Florida are godless heathans who will break out our riot gear at the drop of a hat for any reason.//actually having a sonic milkshake and finishing college algebra homework

I have made French toast myself, which is quite an accomplishment considering I "don't cook."

Nonetheless, I prefer pancakes, but only if they're not gooey and fall-aparty.

I sure hope those jurors saw something I didn't see, because the guy who was just found not guilty was the guy with the gun, and as a rule of thumb, I never feel sorry for the guy with the gun. Remember, he's got the NRA on his side.

I'm now convinced half the country was watching a different trial than I was.

911 Operator told him "Ok, we don't need you to do that." And Zimmerman followed the kid anyways. Zimmerman had a loaded gun on him for neighborhood watch duty, who the f*ck does that. He saw a black kid running home in the rain with his hood on and assumed he had robbed a nearby 7-11, so he says "They always get away, f*cking punks."

Tatsuma:skullkrusher: what they're not missing is delicious, delicious bacon

Yeah trust me, bacon is worth giving up over Shabbat. You have no idea what you are missing out on.

My friend was the live in maintenance/building manager at a Jewish community center that had full proper Shabbat meals every week. He got a plate made for him and all the leftovers he wanted, which of course there were plenty, so many a Shabbat 2.0 meal was had at his place.

My belabored point is, Tatsuma, I think I actually agree with you. Those were some damn good stick to the ribs meals. I mean, bacon is indeed awesome, but doesn't always leave you so full and satisfied on its own.